Not exactly, those don't have the right signature to be used with a for
loop, they just take a function.  You wouldn't be able to use break or
continue with them.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Daniel Patterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> See times, timesi (implemented for uint and int), and int::range (i.e.,
> these all already exist)
>
> On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Dave Halperin wrote:
>
> Python doesn't have c style for loops and the way you'd do this is use
> xrange to create an iterator over a range of numbers, then use a high level
> for loop.  This seems like the cleanest solution for rust to me.
> Psuedo-code:
>
> for range(start, end) |i| {
>   char c = buf[i];
>   ...
>   if (c == uninteresting) {
>     continue;
>   }
>   ...
> }
>
> Seems like range and some related functions should be considered for the
> standard library to support this style.
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Chris Double 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Henri Sivonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Looping over a part of an array by index and moving on immediately
>> > when a “not interested” condition matches.
>> >
>> > Stuff like
>> > for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
>> >   char c = buf[i];
>> >   ...
>> >   if (c == uninteresting) {
>> >     continue;
>> >   }
>> >   ...
>> > }
>>
>> You might be able to bend macros into something you want. For example:
>>
>> macro_rules! my_loop(
>>   ($cond:expr, $inc:expr, $body:expr) => {
>>     while $cond {
>>       while $cond {
>>         $body;
>>         $inc;
>>       }
>>       $inc;
>>     }
>>   };
>> )
>>
>> fn main () {
>>   io::println("hello");
>>   let mut i = 0;
>>   my_loop!(i < 10, i += 1, {
>>     if i < 5 { break; }
>>     io::println("foo");
>>   })
>> }
>>
>> Here 'break' inside the macro is your 'continue' and in the example "i
>> < 5" is the uninteresting check. I don't know how, in rust, to change
>> all uses of some_string into "($inc; loop)" but if you can you can do
>> better than this example.
>>
>> Chris.
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